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President was inaugurated under the protection of soldiery.
But before the inauguration of Lincoln, March 4th, the secession movement had spread through the cottonbelt and delegates from the secession States had met as a congress at Montgomery, Alabama, February 4th.
On the 8th they had organized the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of
Simon Cameron, Secretary of War from March 4, 1861, until Jan. 15, 1862.
from a photograph. America, and on the 9th had elected Jefferson Davis President and Alexander H. Stephens Vice-President.
When the news of the firing upon Sumter reached Washington, President Lincoln prepared a proclamation, and issued it April 15th, convening Congress and calling forth 75,000 three-months militia to suppress combinations against the Government.
The Federal situation was alarming.
Sumter fell on the 13th of April, and was evacuated on the 14th.
Virginia seceded on the 17th, and seized Harper's Ferry on the 18th and the Norfolk Navy Yard

m for the supply of corn, bacon and household articles, it being the custom to obtain these in advance from their merchants and to pay when they sold their crops of cotton and sugar.
Nearly all the great planters were thus in debt.
Mr. Payne himself carried a considerable debt, and also carried a very large cash balance.
When the seven States which first formed the Confederacy at Montgomery, Ala., had passed their secession ordinances and organized their Government by electing Jefferson Davis President, they seem for the first time to have thought about finances.
There is nothing more astonishing now than to look back and see with what utter disregard of consequences and lack of plans for the future that war was entered upon by the South.
The South had no store of arms and ammunition, except as nearly every individual was the owner of a rifle or shotgun.
They had few small factories capable of making cannons, guns or powder, and almost no clothing or shoe factories, and practi

events, to protect and defend the Confederate States hitherto, in their conflict with their enemies, and to be unto them a should:
And, whereas, with grateful thanks we recognize His hand and acknowledge that not unto but unto Him belongeth the victory; and in humble dependence upon His Almighty strength, and trusting in the justness of our cause, we appeal to Him that He may set at naught the efforts of our enemies, and put them to confusion and shame:
Now, therefore, I, Jefferson Davis President of the Confederate States in view of the impending conflict, do hereby set apart Friday, the 15th day of November, as a day of fasting humiliation and prayer; and I do hereby invite the Reverend Clergy said; the people of these Confederate States, to repair on that day to their usual places of public worship, and to implore the blessing of Almighty God upon our arms, that He may give us victory over our enemies, preserve our homes and a fare from pollution, and secure to us the res

s, to protect and defend the Confederate States hitherto, in their conflict with their enemies, and to be unto them a shield:
And, whereas, with grateful thanks we recognize His hand, and acknowledge that not unto us, but unto Him belongeth the victory; and in humble dependence upon His Almighty strength, and trusting in the justness of our cause, we appeal to Him that He may set at naught the efforts of our enemies, and put them to confusion and shame:
Now, therefore, I, Jefferson Davis President of the Confederate States in view of the impending conflict, do hereby set apart Friday, the 15th day of November, as a day of lasting humiliation and prayer; and I do hereby invite the Reverend Clergy, and the people of these Confederate States, to repair on that day to their usual places of public worship, and to implore the blessing of Almighty God upon our arms, that He may give us victory over our enemies, preserve our homes and altars from pollution, and secure to us the rest